This lighting project from Swedish designers Siri Bahlenberg and Sofia Bergfeldt is for those who know the joy of a good ice mold (an ice sphere for your whiskey, perhaps?) The Melt and Recreate lamp uses LED lights housed with fiber optic cables and features a lamp shade made from ice. An ice mold freezes the shade around a metal fixture that then attaches to the body of the pendant.

With a 10 hour lifespan for the melting ice shade and a 10 hour incubating period for the ice to set in the mold, the lamp is constantly in flux—with each drop of water from pendant to mold, the user gets an active reminder of the product’s lifecycle. Melt and Recreate is part of the Ung Svensk Form highlighting the work of young Swedish designers.

LinYee Yuan is the founder and editor of MOLD. Through original reporting, MOLD explores how designers can address the coming food crisis by creating products and systems that will help feed 9 billion people by the year 2050. In addition to the website and a self-published bi-annual print magazine, MOLD hosts events and exhibitions, works with next generation food brands, and commissions products from emerging designers.
LinYee was previously the entrepreneur in residence for QZ.com and an editor for Core77, T: The New York Times Style Magazine and Theme Magazine. She has written about design and art for Food52, Design Observer, Cool Hunting, Elle Decor and Wilder Quarterly. LinYee also contributed the foreword to Food Futures: Sensory Explorations in Food Design and Cooking Up Trouble.